Fisheries

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Thai Seafood Giant Commits To Major Fishing Reforms

Thai Union, one of the world's largest seafood conglomerates, said Tuesday it will overhaul its fishing practices to...

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Fishing Slows Down At Shama As Illegal Mining On Pra Pollutes Sea

Illegal mining (galamsey) activities in the Pra River have affected fishing activities at Shama, a coastal town in the...

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Local Firm Takes Over Elmina Fish Processing Plant

The Elmina Fish Processing Plant has been officially handed over to a Ghanaian management firm, Raphael Spectrum...

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Fishmongers Asked To Adopt Hygienic Fish Smoking Methods

Fish processors and traders in the Western Region, have been called upon to adopt hygienic smoking and processing...

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Irate Fishermen Disrupt Meeting On Illegal Fishing In Accra

Some irate fishermen in the Greater Accra Region last Saturday besieged the Civil Service Training Centre at...

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EU Injects Over EUR2m Into Sustainable Fisheries Development

The European Union (EU) has committed more than two million Euros to the implementation of a four-year sustainable...

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Marine ‘galamseyers’ On Rampage; Disrupt Inauguration of Volunteer Group In Ada

A group of fishermen numbering about 200 on Friday interrupted a programme organised by the Minister of Fisheries and...

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US Scientists Track Fish Migration Using DNA In Water Samples

A simple analysis of fish DNA in water drawn from two New York rivers successfully tracked the presence or absence of...

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Sacrificing Fishes For Oil; A ‘galamsey’ Threat Offshore

In Ghana, virtually every part is opened for mining. As a result, 8 out of the 10 regions are currently grappling with...

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Fish Farming In Danger

Research scientists at the Water Research Institute (WRI), one of the institutes of the Council for Scientific and...

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Fish Farming In Danger

Research scientists at the Water Research Institute (WRI), one of the institutes of the Council for Scientific and...

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‘Underwater Wasteland’ Worries After Cyclone Hits Barrier Reef

A powerful cyclone that smashed into northeastern Australia could have caused further damage to the under-pressure...

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Government Moves To Address Challenges In Fishing Industry

The government is in the process of rewriting the Fisheries Act, 2002 to address key challenges in the country’s...

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Coral Reefs In Hot Water

A spike in water temperature lasting only days bleached all the coral in a South China Sea atoll, and killed 40 percent...

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‘Dead Zones’ A Threat To Coral Reefs

Low-oxygen areas of the ocean known as dead zones threaten hundreds of coral reefs worldwide, fragile ecosystems...

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Great Barrier Reef May Never Recover From Bleaching

Australia's Great Barrier Reef may never recover from last year's warming-driven coral bleaching, said a study...

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Plan To Save Great Barrier Reef Set Back Decades

Australia's plan to rescue the beleaguered Great Barrier Reef has been set back at least two decades after the fragile...

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Stop Politicising Fisheries Challenges – Fisherfolk To Government

Fishermen and fishing groups across the country have unanimously agreed to resist any move by government to politicize...

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Stop Politicising Fisheries Challenges

Fishermen and fishing groups across the country have unanimously agreed to resist any move by government to politicize...